A Case Study of RFID-Enabled Payment Device

Abstract:

Payment cards supporting contactless transactions are becoming increasingly popular in recent years. While enjoying the benefits in terms of speed and convenience provided by the new feature, considerable concerns over security and privacy of RFID technology used for contactless payment have been raised for some time. Actually, diverse attacks against fielded systems have already been found and demonstrated. Among the various existing countermeasures, cryptographic solutions are more commonly used as a mechanism for providing security and privacy protections. The goal of this paper is to take a deep insight into one of the RFID-enabled payment devices, known as Digital Signature Transponder (DST). Especially, the explanation of its cryptographic design is presented in detail.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 588-589)
• Pages: 2021-2025
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.588-589.2021
• Online since: November 2012
• Authors: Miao Zhou
• Keywords: Cryptography, DST, Payment Device, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

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